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CAPSICUM BACCATUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Capsicum baccatum mean? 

CAPSICUM BACCATUM (noun)
  The noun CAPSICUM BACCATUM has 1 sense:

1. plant bearing very small and very hot oblong red fruits; includes wild forms native to tropical America; thought to be ancestral to the sweet pepper and many hot peppersplay

  Familiarity information: CAPSICUM BACCATUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CAPSICUM BACCATUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Plant bearing very small and very hot oblong red fruits; includes wild forms native to tropical America; thought to be ancestral to the sweet pepper and many hot peppers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bird pepper; Capsicum baccatum; Capsicum frutescens baccatum

Hypernyms ("Capsicum baccatum" is a kind of...):

capsicum; capsicum pepper plant; pepper (any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers)

Holonyms ("Capsicum baccatum" is a member of...):

Capsicum; genus Capsicum (chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers)


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